The Tome of Retribution (Legends Are Made Book 5) by Patrick Michael

Author:Patrick Michael [Michael, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2024-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

“So, I have a couple of questions,” Smoke stated in a forced conversational tone as he ripped his cutlass from the corpse of a wolf-sized beetle. “Like, why did Grim call you Mom? And why did you bring Tylee along to defend Ermanthyr?”

“Really? Now?” Nyneeve shot him an incredulous look as she pointed the fingers of her right hand at an enormous hornet with a twelve-foot wingspan nimbly darting through the trees overhead.

A hornet with one elven soldier impaled on its stinger while another’s hands scrabbled to find purchase on the creature’s mandibles to prevent them from closing and shearing him in half.

The elven woman clenched her hand into a fist, and the hornet’s body seemed to collapse in on itself with a terrible crunching noise.

The soldier suspended by the stinger fell to the ground. The one who’d been trapped in the creature’s mandibles dropped as they spasmed open but grabbed some tree limbs on his way down to break his fall.

“Yes, now. I am betting it is interesting, and I am bored.”

Iden laughed. “Oh, really? Sorry the invasion of giant bugs and multicolored oozes isn’t entertaining enough for you.”

“Yeah, me too,” Smoke retorted as he slashed his cutlasses through some sort of orange ooze that had fallen from a tree limb overhead, leaving a smoking patch of leaves behind. “The least you elves could do is find a way to offer a guy a challenge.” He glanced at his swords as the creature melted into a puddle. The blades were tarnished.

“Now is not the time, Smoke,” Nyneeve declared primly.

Tylee broke in, his hand a blur as he released two arrows into another hornet. “High Lady Apsara used to give grimalkin to Mom to raise for the first year of their lives. Something about a test. Since Mom likes cute little furry things, she was happy to do so.”

“Until that one.” Iden laughed as he cut down another beetle.

“Why? What is wrong with Grim?” Smoke asked, scanning for his next enemy.

“What isn’t?” Bade retorted.

“Hey! I heard that!” Grim grumbled. In his normal leopard size, he jumped over Nyneeve to tackle a three-foot centipede to the ground. The grimalkin made quick work of it, tearing it apart with his teeth and claws. “There is nothing wrong with me!”

Nyneeve rose to his defense. “Grim is fine.”

Tylee chuckled as he loosed another arrow. “Oh? Tell him what High Lady Apsara said.”

The highven woman sighed. “It seems my abilities…altered Grim. He ended up being much smarter and more capable than a normal grimalkin, and they are skilled enough.”

“How do you mean?” Smoke threw an alchemical globe into the path of yet another hornet. The creature struck the glass sphere. There was a puff of smoke, then its wings buzzed erratically.

Before it flew face-first into a tree with a resounding crack.

Nyneeve made the same gesture as before toward a huge, six-foot spider with a shiny black carapace and a red hourglass on top. The arachnid squealed as it crumpled into a ball and fell to the earth.

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